Programming

Kirsten Forkert (Vancouver) uses the cinema to explore human relationships. Her project focuses on the visitor's personal experience as an audience. A device of double projections will make visitors see their own image, confronting them with their own solitude. The artist will perform on site for the duration of the intervention. His project is an unusual mise en abyme of the image in a film projection space.

Entre nous deux... is a site-specific intervention exploring human relationships through cinema, and more specifically through the shared experience of watching a film. Movie theaters are places where we forget ourselves. Moviegoers laugh or cry together. For the duration of a film, strangers meet in the dark, bound together by a temporary intimacy.

Why does cinema bring us together? Because it relaxes us and opens us up to each other through its ability to take us away from everyday life? Because it allows us to momentarily inhabit the same imaginary space? Or is it simply that we can project ourselves into a character, identify with someone who looks like us on screen? - Kirsten Forkert

Kirsten Forkert practices site-specific installation, performance and writing. She completed her BFA at NSCAD and her MFA at Simon Fraser University. She lives and works in Vancouver, where she teaches and is involved in the arts and literary communities.